accerse

t. [Lat. accersio.] To call together, to summon. and thereupon accersed and called together hys army." Hall: Edward IV., f. 26, ắc-çe , * ăc-çe e (formerly pron. ăcçe : see the examples from Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, .), s . [In Fr. accès ; Ital. acce o, fr. Lat. acce us a going to, a coming to also, a fit, the sudden attack of a disease: accedo to go to, to come to.] I. The act, proce , or movement of going forward, in contradistinction to going back. ".. were it not for the variations of the acce es and rece es of the sun, which call forth and put back."- Bacon : De Calore et Frigore. Hence, II. Increase, addition. 1. Generally : "A stream which, from the fountain of the heart, Isning, however feebly, nowhere flows Without acce of unexpected strength." 2. Medicine: Words worth: Excursion, bk. iv. (a) The return of a periodical disease, such as intermittent fever, madne , . An acce and paroxysm are different. Acce is the commencement of the new invasion made by the disease, while the paroxysm is its height. (See Blount.) "And from acce of frenzy lock'd the brain." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, bk. xii. 213, Hence (* b ) formerly used for a fever itself. ( Chaucer .) "A water lilly, which doth remedy In hot acce es as bokes specify." Bochas , bk. 1., c. 15. IMG:content-0075.png:[blocks in formation] "Go, lest the haughty partner of my sway With jealous eyes thy close acce survey." Pope : Homer's Iliad , bk. L, 676-7. they were neither contemporary witne es, nor had personal acce to the evidence of contemporary witne es."-Lewis: Credibility of Karly Roman Hist . 2. Spec. Opportunity of sexual intercourse. if the husband be out of the kingdom of England, so that no acce to his wife can be presumed."-Black stone: Comment., bk. 1, ch. 16. 3. Means of approach. (a) Generally : "The acce of the town was only by a neck of land."- Bacon . (b) Arch .: A pa age, such as a corridor, between the several apartments in a building. ăc-çěs-sar-i-lý, adv. [ACCESSORILY.] ăc-çěs-sar-i-ne , s. [ACCESSORINESS.] ăc-cěs-sar-ỹ, s. & a. [ACCESSORY.] *ăc'-çe e, s. [Fr.] Old spelling of ACCESS. ăc-çěs-si-bil-i-ty, s. [Lat, acce ibilitas.] Approachable ne . to place the Scriptures in a position of acce ibility to the ma of the community."-Gladstone: State in Relation to the Church , ch . vii.